Wagon-body



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WAGON BODY.

No. 390,043. Patented Sept. 25, 1888.

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WAGON BODY.

Patented Sept. 25 1888.

M I vI I I I a W I W I I I I I I I 0 I I I y I ATTORNEY Nw PETERS. Phfloljihogmphar, Wilhingtan, D. C,

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS TYSON, OF MOUND CITY, MISSOURI.

WAGON-BODY.

SPECIPIQATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 390,043, dated September 25, 1888. Application filed June 4, 1888. Serial No. 276,013. No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS TYSON, of Mon nd City, in the county of Holt and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wagon-Bodies, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in wagon-bodies especially adapted for farm use, and has for its object to provide a wagon'bod y wherein the boards constituting one side may be thrown up and upon the opposite side to permit the ready reception of the potatoes, corn, or other articles gathered in the field, and adapted to be carted therefrom to astorehouse or other place.

A further object of the invention is to provide a wagon-body with an adjustable endgate, whereby when the body is loaded the end-gate may be lowered and form a platform for the farmer or his man to readily unload the same.

The object of the invention is also to provide a means whereby the side-boards may be reduced in height and the wagon-body used for ordinary purposes when so desired.

The invention consists in hinging one set of side-boards to fold over upon the other and constitute a barrier, and adjustably hinging an end-gate to the body, and in the construc tion and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the wagonbody with the end-gate closed. Fig. 2 is a similar view, with the top side-board thrown over and the center side-board in the act of Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the said wagon-body,with the end-gate down in position for unloading the same. Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical section on line 00 00 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a plan View of the wagon-body, with the end-gate closed. Fig. 6 is a rear elevation of Fig. 5. -Fig. 7 is a transverse vertical section on line y y of Fig. 5; and Fig. 8 is a transverse section on line a a of Fig. 5, looking forward, illustrating the sides as reduced.

In carrying out the invention, the wagonbody consists of a front gate, 10, a rear endgate, 11, and sides 12 and 13. The front endgate, 10, is made in two sections, an upper section, 14, and a lower section, 1 1, the said lower section being of a width hereinafter set forth.

The side 12 of the wagon consists of two boards, 12 and 12, which are braced or stayed in any approved manner, the opposite side, 13, consisting of three boards, 15, 16, and 17, the lower board of the'side 12 being preferably of a height equal to the combined height of the opposite boards, 15 and 17, and the upper board, 12", of a height equal to the central board, 16, of the opposite side. The lower section of the side 12 is secured to the wagonbody, the upper section being detachable.

The upper section of the front end-gate, 10,

at one end is recessed from the center outward, and in said recess a block, 18, is inserted, hinged at the upper end, whereby the said block may be folded upward upon the opposite upper surface of the front end-gate, as shown in Fig. 2. The lower wall of the said recess in the front end-gate is preferably flush with the upper surface of the central side-board, 16. The lower section, 17, of the side 13 is rigidly attached to the wagon-body,and the upper section, 15, of the same side. is attached to the front end-gate by means of a U-shaped clip, 19, secured by staples to the block 18, and projecting outward through the side -board, at which point the clip is provided with thumbnuts 20, as clearly shown in Figs. 5 and 8.

To the inner rear end of the upper section, 12, upon the side 12 a block, 21, is hinged to fold outward, and a second block, 22, is hinged upon the upper face of the aforesaid block 21, one block being adapted to fold over upon the other when occasion requires.

A post, 23, is made to project from the outer side of the block 21, which post is adapted to engage an eye, 24, secured to the extremity of an arm, 25, which arm in turn is hinged to the inner surface of the central side section, 16, as shown in Fig. 7. The arm 25 is made detachable from the post 23 by means of a pin, 26, passing outside of the eye 24 through an aperture in said post,as shown in Fig.5. A similar arm, 27, is hinged at one end to the inner front surface of the said side section, 16, the oppoend of which clip is made to engage pins 81 in the outer face of the said block 22. The extremities of the clip projecting through the side-board are provided with nuts in a similar manner to the aforesaid clip 19, and the inner face of the upper side-board, 15, is recessed sufficiently, so that when the bow end of the clip is disengaged from the pins 31 and drawn outward it will enter the recess and be flush with the inner side of the board. This recess is produced for a purpose which will be hereinafter set forth.

The hinged end blocks, 22 and 23, are held from lateral play by means of standards 25, projecting upward from the bottom of the wagon-body in contact with the inner side of said blocks, which standards are secured to the several side boards and divided equally with the same. The said end blocks, 21 and 22, are further stayed or supported by means of a book, 32, pivoted to the upper board of the side 12, which hook is made to engage an eye, 33, secured upon the inner face of the block 2l, as shown in Fig. 2. To the inner face of the several side sections, 15 and 16, a series of buttons, 34, are pivoted, which buttons are adapted when the side sections are placed one upon the other to be turned down and extend over the abutting ends to stiffen and strengthen the same. The rear eudgate, 11, is hinged in any approved manner to the bottom of the wagon-body, and is adapted to extend upward a distance above the sides.

To the inner face of the end-gate, near the outer ends, side strips, and 36, are attached, which strips when the end-gate is closed are adapted to extend without the side-boards, as shown in Fig. 1. The side piece, 85, which for convenience I will designate a cheekblock, is made in one piece and rigidly se' cured to the end-gate, while the cheek'block 36 is made in two sections-namely, 36" and 86". The lower section, 36, is rigidly attached to the end-gate, the upper section, 36, being hinged thereto, as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The purpose of this upper hinged section, 36, is to admit of the said section being car ried outward parallel with the end-gate to ad mit of the manipulation of the side-boards 15 and 16.

If found desirable, when the cheek-block 36 is at right angles to the end-gate, the sections may be united and held united by means of a bar passing downward through staples at tachcd to both sections, the upper staple aligning the lower one; but this connection I do not deem absolutely necessary.

Upon the upper board of the side 12, at the end,an eye, 37, is secured, and upon the lower side-board, 17, also at the end, a second eye, 38, is fastened, the said eyes 37 and 38 being adapted to pass, respectively, through apertures 39 and 40 produced in the body of the end-gate, as shown in Fig. 6.

The end-gate when placed in a vertical or closed position is retained in such position through the medium of hooks 41 and 42, pivoted, respectively, to the eyes 37 and 38, the hook 41 being made to engage an eye, 43, screwed in the outer face of the end-gate, and the hook 42 a similar eye, 44, similarly attached to the endgate adjacent to the aforesaid eye 43. As an additional fastening for the endgate,an eye, 45, is secured to the cheek-section 36 upon the outer face, to which eye a hook, 46, is pivoted, which hook is adapted to enter an eye, 47, secured to the upper side-board, 15, as best shown in Fig. 1.

In gathering potatoes, corn, or similar articles and throwing the same into a wagon, it is necessary that one side of the wagon be lower than the other, the lowest side being that next to the operator. To this end it has been the custom heretofore to place upon the side farthest from the operator an additional side piece known as a bump-board, so that when the corn or potatoes are tossed in the wagon they will not be thrown over the side, but strike the bump-board and fall into the body. Even with this attachment ofttimes the articles were thrown over the bumpboard, and much time has been consumed in gathering the products, since the operator necessarily must look up at each movement to ascertain if he has thrown any articles too high. To overcome this objection is the object of this invention; and to this end when the wagon is driven to the field the cheek block section 36 is thrown outward parallel with the end of the cud-gate, or at right angles with the same outward. The upper sideboard, 15, which is respectively attached to the hinged blocks 18 and 22, is thrown over in the direction of the opposite side and made to restnpon the top section of the side 12, as shown in Fig. 2. The intermediate section, 16, is also carried upward and thrown upon the aforesaid section 15, leaving the wagon with but one board,17,upon the side of the operator. The articles may now be picked up rapidly and thrown without the. operator lifting his head to see whether they strike into the wagon, the opposite side walls being so high as to prevent their escape. When the wagon has been iiilcd up as high as the upper edge of the side board 17, the in termediate section, 16, is brought down to its normal position and the wagon filled as high as the top of that section. The upper board, 15, may now be brought downward, and if found desirable a bu nip-board placed upon the opposite side. The wagon having been filled and it being desirable to empty the same, a

ready means is provided through the medium of my improved end-gate. The books 41,42, and 46 being disengaged from their respective eyes, the end-gate is suffered to drop downward, the bent end of the hooks 41 and 42 serving to sustain the same in an inclined position, as delineated in Fig. 3. As a further support the hook 46 may be made to enter an aperture, 48, in the upper sideboard, 15. The hook 32 is then disengaged from the eye 33 and the arm disengaged from the post 23. The said arm 25 is thereupon swung outward parallel with the side-boards, as shown in Fig. 3. This having been accomplished, the clip is loosened'and detached from its retaining-pin and drawn outward until the bowed end is entered into the recess referred to in the inner side of the upper side-board, 15. This frees the block 22, which may be carried outward and may rest upon the upper surface of the block 21. The two blocks, by means of the hinge-connection with the side 12, being carried outward parallel with said side, virtually opens the wagon-body. The operator, standing upon the end-gate, may now with a shovel expeditiously and conveniently remove the contents, which otherwise would have to be first thrown out by hand until the operator could find room in the wagon-body to shovel the remainder.

In the event ofit being desirableto havea low wagon-body for any purpose, the central sect.ion,16, may be removed,likewise theupper'section upon the opposite side, 12. In this event the lower section ofthe front end-gate, which is of a height equal to the height of the aforesaid central side-board, 16, is removed, and the top section of the said front end-gate allowed to drop down upon the bottom, as shown in Fig. 8, the rear end-gate remaining as heretofore, the clip 28, by which the section 12 was secured in the end-gate, being passed through suitable apertures in the lower section, as shown in Fig. 8.

I desire it understood that although specific constructions have been shown and described,

I the equivalentconstructions may be employed without departing from the spirit of the invention; for instance, one or more extra sideboards may be employedthat is, one or more Sideboards in addition to the permanent side boards.

Having thus described my inventi'on,I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-- 1. The combination, with a wagon-body provided with a permanent bottom, one stationary side, and adj ustable front and rear end gates, of a series of hinged side-boards folding over upon the fixed sideboards, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination, with awagon-body pro vided with a permanent bottom, a verticallyadjustable front end-gate, and one set of stationary side-boards, of hinged end blocks adjustably secured to the fixed side-boards, and a set of side-boards hinged to the forward endgate and to said end blocks, adapted to fold over upon the fixed side-boards. substantially as and for the purpose specified.

3. The combination, with awagon-body provided with a permanent bottom, a "erticallyadjustable front end-gate, and one set of stationary side-boards, of hinged end blocks secured to one of the fixed side-boards and extending transversely from side to side, a series of sideboards folding over upon the fixed boards connected with the front end-gate and said end blocks, and buttons pivoted upon the folding sideboards, substantially as shown and described. v

4. In awagon-body, thecombination, with a permanent bottom, a front end-gate provided with a recess in the upper surface at one end, a block fitted in said recess and hinged to the gate, and a set of stationary side-boards, of end blocks hinged together and to one fixed side-board, a series of folding side-boards respectively connected with the front and rear blocks, substantially in the manner and for the purpose specified.

5. In a wagon-body, the combination,with a permanent bottom, a front end-gate provided with a recess in the upper surface at one end, a block fitted in said recess and hinged to the gate, a set of stationary side-boards, and end side-boards, of an upper and intermediate adjustable side-board, an upper side-board secured to the front and rear blocks, and arms secured to the intermediate side-board and detachably pivoted, respectively, to the front gate and one of the hinged end blocks, substantially as shown and described.

6. The combination, with a wagon-body constructed as shown and described, and provided with eyes 37 and 38, secured to the ends of the side-boards, of an end-gate hinged to the body provided with apertures 39 and 40, a rigid cheek-block secured at one side and a sectional cheek-block hinged to the opposite side, eyes 43 and 44, attached to the outer face of the end-gate, hooks 41 and 42, secured to the eyes 37 and 38, passing through the apertures in the gate, an eye, 47, secured to one side-board, and a hook pivoted to the sectional cheek-block adapted to engage the said eye 47, all combined to operate substantially as shown and described.

THOMAS TYSON.

Witnesses:

EDWARD HUGGINS, J OHN P. LEWIs.

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